Diocese of

Amravati

India

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Amravati / Amravaten(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Nagpur

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Our Lady of Sorrows, Saint Francis Xavier

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1955.05.08: Established as Diocese of Amravati / Amravaten(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nagpur and became suffragan of Nagpur)
1968.07.29: Lost territory to Apostolic Exarchate of Chanda
1977.12.17: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Aurangabad

Present Prelates

Bishop (2023.11.30 – ...):

Bishop Malcolm Sequeira (63)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Amravati (Roman Rite)

Bishop Malcolm Sequeira (63)
(2023.11.30 – ...)

Bishop of Amravati (India)

Born:	1961.11.04 (Giriz, India)
Ordained Priest:	1996.04.13
Consecrated Bishop:	2024.01.25

Priest of Poona (India) (1996.04.13 – 2023.11.30)

Bishop of Amravati (India) (2023.11.30 – ...)

Archbishop Elias Joseph Gonsalves (63)
(Apostolic Administrator 2018.12.03 – 2023.11.30)

Bishop Elias Joseph Gonsalves (63) (later Archbishop)
(2012.07.11 – 2018.12.03)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Nagpur (India)

To reconcile and unite all things in Christ

Born:	1961.07.04 (Chulne, India)
Ordained Priest:	1990.04.11
Consecrated Bishop:	2012.09.29

Priest of Bombay (India) (1990.04.11 – 1998.05.22)

Priest of Vasai (India) (1998.05.22 – 2012.07.11)

Bishop of Amravati (India) (2012.07.11 – 2018.12.03)

Apostolic Administrator of Amravati (India) (2018.12.03 – 2023.11.30)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Nagpur (India) (2018.12.03 – ...)

Bishop Lourdunada Daniel (78)
(Apostolic Administrator 2010.11.11 – 2012.07.11)

Bishop Lourdunada Daniel (78)
(2007.06.08 – 2010.11.11)

Bishop emeritus of Nashik (India)

Born:	1947.02.19 (Dehu Road, India)
Ordained Priest:	1980.04.19
Consecrated Bishop:	2007.08.02

Priest of Poona (India) (1980.04.19 – 2007.06.08)

Bishop of Amravati (India) (2007.06.08 – 2010.11.11)

Apostolic Administrator of Nashik (India) (2009.12.10 – 2010.11.11)

Apostolic Administrator of Amravati (India) (2010.11.11 – 2012.07.11)

Bishop of Nashik (India) (2010.11.11 – 2023.12.30)

Bishop Edwin Colaço (87)
(1995.04.01 – 2006.10.20)

Bishop emeritus of Aurangabad (India)

Servant of the Lord

Born:	1937.10.02 (Uttan, India)
Ordained Priest:	1964.12.02
Consecrated Bishop:	1995.07.30

Bishop of Amravati (India) (1995.04.01 – 2006.10.20)

Bishop of Aurangabad (India) (2006.10.20 – 2015.05.13)

Bishop Joseph Albert Rosario, M.S.F.S.
(1955.05.08 – 1995.04.01)

Born:	1915.05.30 (India)
Ordained Priest:	1944.09.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1955.11.13
Died:	2011.07.31 († 96)

Bishop of Amravati (India) (1955.05.08 – 1995.04.01)

Special Churches

Cathedral: St. Francis Xavier’s Cathedral, Amravati, Mahārāshtra

Aurangabad (↙), Nashik (←), Khandwa (↖), Nagpur (→), Chanda (↘), Adilabad (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 46,090 km²

Population: 5,680 Catholics (0.1% of 11,266,653 total)

Pastoral Centres: 20 parishes, 1 mission

Personnel: 45 priests (36 diocesan, 9 religious), 253 religious (12 brothers, 241 sisters), 10 seminarians

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2025.03.17

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